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Disability and social policy: Global evidence and perspectives 残疾和社会政策:全球证据和观点

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Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-01-12 DOI: 10.1177/14680181221146030

Sophie Mitra, Q. Gao

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The rise of the reflexive expert? Epistemic, care-ful and instrumental reflexivity in global public policy 反射专家的崛起？全球公共政策中的认识性、关怀性和工具性自反性

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Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2023-01-06 DOI: 10.1177/14680181221145382

J. Bandola-Gill, Sotiria Grek, Marlee Tichenor

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Biopolitics of disability determination: Consequences of austere biomedical assessment regimes 残疾认定的生物政治学：严格的生物医学评估制度的后果

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Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-30 DOI: 10.1177/14680181221145824

V. Chaudhry

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From the ground up: Constructing social policies for people with disabilities in post-earthquake Haiti 从头开始：为海地地震后的残疾人制定社会政策

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Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.1177/14680181221146037

Gérald Oriol, James English

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Needless barriers: Despite advances, equal rights for people with disabilities still lag far behind 不必要的障碍:尽管取得了进步，但残疾人的平等权利仍然远远落后

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Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.1177/14680181221146029

J. Heymann

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A neo-institutional analysis of social protection: Insights from Indonesia 社会保护的新制度分析：来自印度尼西亚的启示

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Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-23 DOI: 10.1177/14680181221144559

S. Sutiyo

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Re-discussing targeting in times of Covid-19. 新冠肺炎时期的重新瞄准

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Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/14680181221120871

Alexandra Kaasch

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To comply or to be committed? Public procurement and labour rights in global supply chains 顺从还是被委以重任?全球供应链中的公共采购和劳工权利

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Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/14680181211070987

D. Sack, EK Sarter

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Towards a Global Social Policy Otherwise: Decoloniality, socialist worldmaking and an ethics of translation 走向全球社会政策:非殖民化、社会主义世界观与翻译伦理

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Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI: 10.1177/14680181221139077

Noemi Lendvai‐Bainton, P. Stubbs

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The disability employment quota, between social policy and antidiscrimination 残疾人就业配额，介于社会政策与反歧视之间

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Global Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-11-28 DOI: 10.1177/14680181221138558

A. Revillard

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